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Man kills ex-girlfriend's parents, drinks beside bodies

By Ko Dong-hwanPolice take Jang into custdy from his residence in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province. /Yonhap Police in Daegu have arrested a 24-year-old man who murdered the parents of his estranged girlfriend.After fatally stabbing the couple, the culprit, identified only as Jang, drank liquor beside the bodies for hours waiting for his ex-girlfriend to come home.The ex-girlfriend, Kwon, 20, who had been living with her parents, arrived at the house at midnight, about six hours after the killings.Kim locked her in a room, but she jumped from the window of the fourth-floor apartment two hours later and managed to call the police.Kwon was severely injured from the jump, but is not in a life-threatening condition, police said. Jang fled the scene after Kwon escaped but was caught at his home in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, hours later.It appears Jang had held a grudge against Kwon’s parents, who didn’t approve of Jang and talked their daughter into breaking up with him, police said. 

May 21, 2014By Ko Dong-hwan
Man kills ex-girlfriend's parents, drinks beside bodies

80% of corporate rookies hate their jobs

By Jeong Ji-suWhile it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a job, the majority of those who found one appear to resent where they ended up.In a survey of 626 people who found jobs in the past year, conducted by job information site Career, 80 percent of the respondents said they are already preparing to switch companies.Most of the respondents spoke of ``discrepancies’’ between what they though the company would be and how things really were. Others admitted that they aimed low just to get a job and were looking to move on to a company with better pay.The respondents were applying to 2.3 different companies every month and using break times and weekends to prepare themselves to move to another company.Half of the respondents said they will keep looking for new jobs until they get into a company that they want to work in.

May 21, 2014

Park in UAE

President Park Geun-hye, left, meets Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, to discuss ways of expanding cooperation in the fields of energy, construction, medicine, finance and nuclear power. Earlier in the day, Park also attended a ceremony to celebrate the installation of a Korean-made nuclear reactor at an under-construction power plant there./ Yohap

May 20, 2014

Planting trees

Korean Air President Chi Chang-hoon, third from right, and company employees plant trees together with residents of Baganuur, a desert district in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 19. The voluntary project will continue through May 30. The carrier has been planting trees there since 2004./ Courtesy of Korean Air

May 20, 2014

Husband and Wife Day

Cha Sang-yuk, 94, and his wife Lee Bok-rye, 91, after winning an award for being the oldest couple in North Chungcheong Province, on Husband and Wife Day, Tuesday. The day was designated in 2007 by the government in an effort to fight the soaring divorce rate./ Courtesy of Okcheon-gun

May 20, 2014

Kim Jong-un wants pro-wrestlers in Pyongyang

By Kim Tong-hyungDennis Rodman has been fun, but it seems North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would now rather have Triple H.North Korea’s state news agency on Tuesday said the country will host an international pro-wrestling event in Pyongyang in August.The event will feature “world renowned’’ fake athletes from the United States, Japan and other countries, the Korean Central News Agency said, although not providing further details.Japanese pro-wrestling icon Kanji Inoki, who levered his fame into a career in politics, will head the Pyongyang event’s organizing committee along with the head of North Korea’s International Martial Arts Games Committee.

May 20, 2014

Anyang officials toured on luxury cruise days after ferry disaster

By Ko Dong-hwan               Municipal authorities at Anyang are taking heat for taking off on a cruise trip while the local community struggled to deal with the recent ferry disaster.The Sewol ferry sank off the waters of the southwestern island on April 16 with 476 people aboard, including hundreds of students from Anyang’s Danwon High School who had been traveling to Jeju on a field trip. Only 172 of the passengers were rescued with the remainder confirmed as dead or missing.Three days later, eight senior civil servants of Anyang’s municipal government boarded a luxury cruise ship to travel along the coasts of Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.The six-day travel came to light only after a former Anyang City employee brought it up through a one-person rally in front of the Anyang City Hall.Through her protest, the woman, a former director of the municipal government’s community relations department, criticized city officials for taking the trip at a distressing time for the community and also accused the city government of tryin

May 20, 2014By Ko Dong-hwan

Doctor leaves surgical apparatus inside woman's womb

By Ko Dong-hwan A woman in Ulsan is suing a doctor who left a surgical tool inside her after surgery.According to Ulsan police, the woman, 55, identified only as Kim, went under surgery in September 2007 to remove a tumor in her uterus.Once locating the tumor, the gynecologist concluded that it was too close to her intestines and stitched the area back up without removing the tumor.For the six years since then, Kim said she suffered from intense pain in the womb area and regularly consumed pain killers and antibiotics.It was in December last year when Kim decided to go to a different hospital to examine her conditions. There, doctors found a “colpotomy cup,’’ a tube-shaped surgery device, sewn insider her.The doctor who did the previous surgery on Kim offered to settle, but Kim says she plans to pursue criminal charges. 

May 20, 2014By Ko Dong-hwan

Sewol families unimpressed by Park's created tears

By Ko Dong-hwanPresident Park Geun-hye, usually as emotional as a rock, showed her tears on live television on Monday as she announced the disbanding of the coast guard over its botched rescue of passengers on the sunken Sewol ferry.Families of the victims, however, weren’t too impressed about Park, who was criticized in the accident’s early aftermath for refusing to hold herself accountable for her government’s supposed ineptitude.The Sewol ferry sank off the waters of the southwestern island on April 16 with 476 people aboard, including hundreds of high school students. Only 172 of them were rescued with the remainder confirmed as dead or missing.Critics have been accusing the government of bungling its emergency response and failing to properly enforce regulations that would have stopped the ship’s operators from putting profit before safety.Speaking to a MBC radio show on Tuesday, Yoo Kyung-eun, a spokesman for the “Emergency Family Committee for the Sewol Ferry Disaster,’’ gave Park’s speech 50 points on a scale of 100.“The p

May 20, 2014By Ko Dong-hwan
Sewol families unimpressed by Park's created tears

Park arrives in Abu Dhabi for nuclear reactor ceremony

South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Monday for a ceremony marking the installation of a Korean-built nuclear reactor at a power plant under construction in the Middle Eastern nation.It is the first out of four reactors South Korea plans to provide the UAE under a 2009 deal that marked South Korea's first exports of nuclear reactors. This week's delivery means that a Korean-built nuclear reactor will make its international debut after passing safety tests, officials said.During Park's two-day visit, the two countries are also expected to conclude discussions on South Korea winning the lucrative right to operate the first power plant scheduled to be completed in 2017. Seoul is seeking to win operation contracts for all four power plants.The three other power plants are scheduled to be completed in 2018-2020.Park plans to attend the reactor installation ceremony together with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two leaders also plan to hold talks on ways to expand cooperation not only in the nuclear industry but

May 20, 2014
Park arrives in Abu Dhabi for nuclear reactor ceremony
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